Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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F#m
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In
the ghetto
You think life is hard
Food stamps and tore up cars
Em
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Wall to wall dirty orange carpet
Sittin' in a bucket,
hopin' you can start it
And ride around to the liquor store
Can't get a job get drunk some more
Em
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You better stop trippin'
'Cause in the ghetto there's a good life
We ain't starvin' like Marvin,
won't see no roach
When ya chill wit' the
rich folks in the hood
Em
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Ya sittin' on leather
watchin' big screens
Bought by the dope fiends smokin'
And what about the brother
wit' the good jobs
Savin' money and workin' hard?
Em
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Bought a house for his wife and kids
Ya know his face but
don't know his name
Em
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Ya know he got the sack, man
And he's sittin' on a fat bank
Seven cars at his house in the driveway
Benz so clean, don't roll,
it just fly away
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'Cause folks got money
in the ghetto
Verse 2
Yeah, you know
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F#m
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Hey, hey, hey
What'cha got to say?
(There's money in the ghetto)
Hollywood
Verse 3
been like that way before
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Get up from the down stroke
Chocolate City for the black folks
Say it loud in ya hot pants
Man child in the promise land
Em
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I take ya back to Iceberg Slim
And all the players that came before him
If you a everyday hustler,
get ya money
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'Cause what they do to
black man ain't funny
Em
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All the time tryna put us in the pen
You get paroled,
then they send you again
All the homies in the hood gettin' paid
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You might have left but the
money stayed
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In the ghetto it ain't all about drugs
Gettin' paid doin' all kinda stuff
Only rule on the street
is don't get caught
Unless your hustle ain't
breakin' the law
Em
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And even though rich folks got it good
We sittin' on 'em fat in the hood
I'm ridin' on some gold ones
Smokin' dank and it's potent
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Ask them fools, 'cause they know
It's money in the ghetto
Verse 4
What'cha got to say?
(There's money in the ghetto)
Hollywood
(Havin' money in the ghetto,
Fm
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ooh-oh)
Verse 5
just tell me the price
'Cause Short Dawg ain't nothin' nice
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I always hit the town wit my
Spend fo' get an ounce a dank then
Rich nigga get high and relax
And if I bust a Ben Frank', get some
Andrew Jacksons
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Five twenties for a hundred dollar bill
You know the math, let's make a deal
On a one dollar bill if ya look on the front
You find the face of George Washington
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Make money, baby, that's all I do
That's how I know Thomas
Jefferson is on the two
Abraham Lincoln got shot and died
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Freed the slaves so they
put him on the five
Em
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And Hamilton, old time friend
They put his face on the front of the ten
These are the dead presidents
From the hood and they represent
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The American dream for the
Make your money,
get some weed and a forty
I'm on the East side livin' like a king
F#m
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Kick back watchin'
fifty-inch screens
screens
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Bounce to the West side, hit studio
Verse 6
And spend my money in the ghetto
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Hey, hey, hey
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What'cha got to say?
(They got money in the ghetto)
Hollywood
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ooh-oh)
Verse 7
or play sports
F#m
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You might just come up short
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And they al ways say the same things
Don't be a gangster or a dope fiend
Get your high school diploma,
go to college
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Get a degree and start makin' dollars
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Only one thing wrong, and it's a trip
Inner city schools don't teach us shit
Got us stuck on stupid, straight S.O.S.
Can't get nothin',
other countries
They should be spendin'
that money right here
In the state of California
F#m
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You graduate and can't
Slangin' rocks to a smoked out bitch
No school'll come close to that
A few transaction makesmy pockets fat
Em
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I make a lot of money and it ain't no lie
I'll probably ball 'til the day I die
Em
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'Cause there's a whole lot
Verse 8
Yeah, you know
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F#m
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Hey, hey, hey
Em
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What'cha got to say?
(They got money in the ghetto)
Hollywood
(Havin' money in the ghetto, ooh-oh)
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